This piece was done for a review of Cameron Crowes directors cut of
Almost Famous. The movie loosely chronicles Crowes life as a 14-year-old
reporter for Rolling Stone Magazine. Untitled spent much more time with
its teenaged protagonist than Almost Famous and included more sex and
drugs and (most importantly) more of Seymour Phillip Hoffman channeling
the rock critic, Lester Bangs. In the painting, I tried to capture a sense of
someone being woken up out of an ether dream by insanely loud music—
probably Zeppelins, Moby Dick. The greatest part of the DVD release
is the full-length commentary by Crowe and his mother.